Watch Egyptian Joan of Arc Online

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Egyptian Joan of Arc

Egyptian Joan of Arc Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/01/2016
  • Duration : 1 hour 26 minutes
  • Director: Iman Kamel
  • Country: Egypt, Germany, Kuwait, Qatar
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Overview:

Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation in ‘post post-revolutionary’ Egypt. Beginning with the return journey to Cairo of a filmmaker long absent from her own country, the film weaves a series of intimate portraits composed of interviews, poetic voice-over and dance; exploring themes of oppression, guilt and faith with Egyptian women, many of them artists. Reflecting on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ – in which the female figure is martyred by the patriarchal forces surrounding her – ‘Jeanne’ is a contemporary commentary that melds documentary and dance with poetic storytelling and myth to arrive at the core of the filmmaker’s enquiries into the circumstances of women in Egypt today.

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